Hello Stackers, We're fifteen weeks away from the coordinated release of OpenStack 2026.1 "Gazpacho" [1]. We're almost at the end of the calendar year, and many community members are taking a well-deserved break during this holiday season observed around the world. The OpenStack Technical Committee did not merge any significant changes in the past week. There's been some more progress on the cleanup effort we embarked on concerning the Monasca project and the governance-sigs repository. Ian Y Choi (ianychoi) and Slawek Kaplonski (slaweq) have graciously agreed to continue as OpenStack's election officials. They're assisted by Tony Breeds (tonyb) who will be the TC liaison. They've begun working on the combined PTL and TC elections that will be conducted in February. We'll share more details about this as they are finalized. === Weekly Meeting === The last meeting of the OpenStack Technical Committee occurred on December 9th, 2025, over the #openstack-tc IRC channel on OFTC [2]. At the meeting, we resolved pending some governance-website patches and established a plan to update the Technical Vision document [3] through brainstorming on an Etherpad. We also discussed the idea of requesting a deadline extension to propose user survey modifications [4]. The team felt that extending the deadline beyond M-2 will allow for input from project teams. We acknowledged the plan to delete unmaintained branches through Yoga [5], with a consensus leaning toward also dropping Zed. Clarification was sought from the "openstack-unmaintained-core" team regarding the "opt-in" maintenance model for newer branches. We noted that Ceph Tentacle is now being tested with DevStack. Additionally, Michal Nasiadka (mnasiadka) is exploring a fix to get an x86-v3 version of OVS to be installed on AlmaLinux while we pursue a packaging fix with AlmaLinux maintainers. This is a must-have because AlmaLinux provides us a good chance of testing OpenStack with an RPM-based distro across most of our cloud providers that have older hardware. The next meeting of the TC will be on Tuesday, December 16th, 2025, at 0800 UTC. Please note this new APAC-friendly time slot. We're gathering the community's interest in a once-monthly meeting in this time slot. Please participate if you're able to. You can find the meeting's agenda and other details on its wiki page [6]. The TC decided to cancel the meetings previously scheduled for December 23rd, 2025, and December 30th, in observance of the holidays. === Governance Proposals === ==== Open For Review ==== - Show SIG repositories on the SIGs page | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/967425 - Alter public cloud SIG chair | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/969371 - Move FIPS Compliance goal back to proposed | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/969145 === Upcoming Events === - 2025-12-16: Twelve Clouds of Christmas: https://www.meetup.com/openinfra-austin/events/312269596 - 2026-01-08: 2026.1 Milestone 2 - 2026-01-27: OpenInfra Board Meeting: https://board.openinfra.org/ Thank you very much for reading! On behalf of the OpenStack TC, Goutham Pacha Ravi (gouthamr) OpenStack TC Chair [1] 2026.1 "Gazpacho" Release Schedule: https://releases.openstack.org/gazpacho/schedule.html [2] TC Meeting IRC Log, Dec 9 2025: https://meetings.opendev.org/meetings/tc/2025/tc.2025-12-09-17.02.html [3] Vision for OpenStack Clouds: https://governance.openstack.org/tc/reference/technical-vision.html [4] OpenStack 2025 User Survey Feedback: https://lists.openstack.org/archives/list/openstack-discuss@lists.openstack.... [5] Unmaintained branch cleanup: https://lists.openstack.org/archives/list/openstack-discuss@lists.openstack.... [6] TC Meeting Agenda, Dec 16 2025: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/TechnicalCommittee#Next_Meeting